Garlaff landfill Site, Skares - Barr Ltd - East Ayrshire Council

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transfer station, wheel wash facility and Civic Amenity site (7.3 hectares). (ii) (iii) Area B of the Skares Road opencast site which is currently being worked (34.6 hectares). Area C of the Skares Road opencast site from which coals have been extracted and backfilling operations are nearing completion (42.2 hectares). (iv) A small area of the existing landfill void of the current Garlaff site (5.4 hectares). 2.4 The immediate surroundings of the site are predominantly rural in nature, with Skares village being the nearest community to the application site. The area is otherwise sparsely populated with isolated farmsteads and other residential properties. 2.5 Proposed Development: Full planning permission is sought for the extension of the existing landfill site by utilising the void space of Area B of the current operational opencast site at Skares Road. The operations within Area B will result in a void space of approximately 4.1 million cubic metres. As an ancillary development it is also proposed to extract approximately 75,000 tonnes from a small area (5.4 hectares) within the existing landfill void area at Garlaff as an extension to the current opencast operations in Area B. 2.6 This small extension to Area B will take approximately 5 to 6 weeks to work and will prevent the sterilisation of this coal reserve by the proposed landfill extension. This additional winning and working of coal will also result in a small increase in the landfill void. The winning and working of coals from this area will be undertaken by the current operator of the Skares Road site and will be hauled to the existing coal processing area at Skares Road. Coals will thereafter be dispatched via lorry using the Skares Road site access. 2.7 The design of the landfill operation will result in the development of a series of 11 landfill cells, each of approximately 2 hectares in area. The landfill operations will comprise a general working direction such that the landfill void will be filled from north to south along the western half of the void. The eastern half of the void will then be filled from south to north. This direction of working has been established through the Environmental Impact Assessment process to minimise the visual impact of the operations from Skares village. This progressive landfill on a cell by cell basis should enable efficient control of odours and landfill gas, litter, pests and vermin. 2.8 The landfill void area will be approximately 12 to 18 metres in depth and will occupy a surface area of 29.9 hectares. Engineering of the void will result in a containment that will serve as a physical barrier to control off site migration of gas and leachate. Each cell has been designed to provide 12 to 15 months
tipping capacity in order to facilitate an annual programme of capping and restoration operations during Summer months. 2.9 The development will also result in Area C referred to above being used for the storage of soils, overburden and boulder clays, removed as part of the opencasting operations, that will be used for the daily coverage of deposited waste and also in capping and restoration operations. The existing site infrastructure will remain in place to service the proposed development. The existing Civic Amenity site, under the control of East Ayrshire Council, but managed by the applicant will remain in situ. 2.10 The applicant has indicated that waste management methods, practices and operations at the proposed Garlaff extension are likely to be similar to those currently undertaken at the existing landfill site. The anticipated waste types to be disposed of would be degradable household waste, commercial and industrial waste, and specific types of clinical waste. The volumes for disposal at the site are stated to be 700 tonnes per day or 250,000 tonnes per annum. The waste streams currently being directed to the existing landfill site relate to local authority contracts for disposal of household refuse from East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. 2.11 Tipping of waste material will be restricted to one cellular phase and the waste will be built up in layers of 0.3 metre to ensure adequate and even compaction, up to a maximum of 2.5 metres. All tipped material would be covered on a daily basis. At the end of each working day, the compacted layer would be levelled and the surface and flanks covered with stored overburden or other imported inert waste. Waste that is particularly odorous and clinical waste will be tipped at the bottom of the tipping face and covered over immediately to minimise odours. A portable litter fence, 2 metres in height, would be provided to surround the operational tipping area to reduce wind-blown litter during adverse weather conditions. 2.12 In terms of leachate management, a comprehensive leachate control system would be installed. Leachate collected within each cell would drain by gravity to pumping well for subsequent treatment or recycling within the landfill. Landfill gas generated from the landfill requires to be managed to prevent it migrating outwith the site boundary. It is proposed that landfill gas collection wells would be installed after capping has taken place within each cell to minimise the volume of gas venting to air. These wells would be on a regular grid and would be connected via horizontal piping. The landfill gas would then be used for the generation of electricity by linking with an energy generating system for the Garlaff site which is currently the subject of a separate application. 2.13 Restoration of the site would result in a strategy to develop and enhance the conservation resource of the site and surrounding area, to restore the landscape to a character appropriate to its setting, and to mitigate the negative impacts of site working and thereafter achieve successful rehabilitation of the site. Due to the fact that leachate and gas monitoring would continue some years after waste disposal has ceased , there are small areas within the
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